Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 28 May 2020 12:19:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: [git pull] coredump infoleak fix |
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On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:17 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Might make sense to change the summary of that pull request to something > like > make sure we don't forget to report the xstate components that happen > to be in init state - both for coredump and for PTRACE_GETREGSET
Note that this has nothing to do with x86 per se.
It's more about ->getregs() being a horrid interface, and being easy to get wrong in general. The fact that xstate is complex is just one such trigger.
Linus
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